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the Edge
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The EDGE: Dirt from the Yurt and other Chatter from the Edge of the Boundary Waters. he Edge is a free and open forum of events and happenings as viewed from the northern edge of Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA)- the Gunflint Trail. Published by Boundary Country Trekking and edited by Ted Young, The Edge offers you an opportunity to write about your experiences and interests in this wonderful part of the planet. Let your imagination run wild as the wilderness that embraces the Gunflint Trail.
Recent Posts
Wolf Strolling along the Lima Grade
Yesterday two guest were driving along the Lima Grade just south of the North Brule River and about four miles from Poplar Creek Guesthouse B&B when they spotted this wolf along the trail. There has been a pack of five or six wolves in the area ...
Rainy Weather on the Gunflint Finally Breaks
After four or five of non-stop days of rain and wind gust up to 40 miles per hour, yesterday it did not rain and the wind finally stopped blowing. At Boundary Country we had one dripping wet canoe party return one day early. One of the men on the tr...
Northwood's stylel Heat Wave, 80 degrees
Yesterday, at the Poplar Creek Guesthouse B&B the temperature hit 80 degrees for the first time this year. Today it looks like we are in for another warm day. Then it is expect to cool down a bit. Still the nights are cool; never getting above the mi...
The Vance Lake Logging Camp- A Historic BWCA Site Revisited
Ted Young, Gunflint Trail-The other day Julie Collman, Cook County Deputy Sheriff; John Jacobsen, Grand Marais; Ashley Jacobsen, student at Superior State College; and I retraced a trip into an old logging camp on Vance Lake that Julie had visited ...
Gunflint Nordic Ski Trails Carbon Off-Set to Gunflint Green Up
Nordic Skiing is normally considered an eco-friendly sport, northeast Minnesota’s Gunflint Nordic ski trail managers have taken this one step further. The Central and Upper Gunflint Ski Areas connected by the Banadad Ski Trail known collective...
